Signs form a language, but not the one you think you know.
– Italo Calvino
Related Quotes:
- Each city receives its form from the desert it opposes. – Italo Calvino
- A classic is a book that has never finished saying what it has to say. – Italo Calvino
- Reading is going toward something that is about to be, and no one yet knows what it will be. – Italo Calvino
- …the world was trying to change its old face and show its underbelly of earth and roots. – Italo Calvino
- Today each of you is the object of the other’s reading, one reads in the other the unwritten story. – Italo Calvino
- Reading is solitude. One reads alone, even in another’s presence. – Italo Calvino
- The obstinacy on which power is based is never so fragile as in the moment of its triumph. – Italo Calvino
- …eyes that, like those of children, look at an eternal present without forgiveness. – Italo Calvino
- It was the love which the hunter has for living things, and which he can only express by aiming his gun at them … – Italo Calvino
- Who are we, who is each one of us, if not a combinatoria of experiences, information, books we have read, things imagined? – Italo Calvino
- Nobody these days holds the written word in such high esteem as police states do. – Italo Calvino
- A classic is a book that has never finished what it wants to say. – Italo Calvino
- The city, however, does not tell its past, but contains it like the lines of a hand – Italo Calvino
- Amusement has always been the great moving force behind culture. – Italo Calvino
- I’ve been in love for five hundred million years-¦ – Italo Calvino
- We’ll make an army in the trees and bring the earth and the people on it to their senses. – Italo Calvino
- Reading is solitude. – Italo Calvino
- Memory’s images, once they are fixed in words, are erased. – Italo Calvino
- It’s always Fun, Honor And a great Pleasure Creating Italo- Disco Music -¦-¦. Creatures of the Night ( Italo -“ Soundtrack Mix ) – Sami Abouzid
- Music is the language of the heart, the language of the soul, the language of nature and the language of the universe. – Debasish Mridha
- The language of marriage is often a language of ownership, not a language of partnership. – Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
- All women speak two languages:-¨the language of men-¨and the language of silent suffering.-¨ Some women speak a third,-¨the language of queens. – Mohja Kahf
- Language comes first. It’s not that language grows out of consciousness, if you haven’t got language, you can’t be conscious. – Alan Moore
- The German language is so sonorous, isn’t it? Beautiful language…the language of poetry. Angry, angry poetry. – John Oliver
- Micro: Letters create words. Words create language. Language, we are told, permits knowledge & expression. Language is what we are. Are we jailed? – Anthony North
- Any form of art is a form of power; it has impact, it can affect change -“ it can not only move us, it makes us move. – Ossie Davis
- Art always serves beauty, and beauty is the joy of possessing form, and form is the key to organic life since no living thing can exist without it. – Boris Pasternak
- In Europe, being an artist is a form of behavior; in America, being an artist is an excuse for a form of behavior. – William Faulkner
- In Europe, being an artist is a form of behavior; in America, it’s an excuse for a form of behavior. – William Faulkner
- Imitation is the greatest form of flattery, but worship is the greatest form of adoration. – Jayce ONeal
- To protect one’s own statement is the greatest form of violence. To impress upon others that his statement is correct is a form of violence itself. – Dada Bhagwan
- Forgiveness is the kindest form of revenge and it brings the sweetest form of peace on earth. – Debasish Mridha
- When people believe that the form is more important than the Truth, they will not find truth, but will stay with form. – Idries Shah
- What if the drive to survive was a form of faith, a form of prayer? – Anne Rice
- Imitation is not just the sincerest form of flattery – it’s the sincerest form of learning. – George Bernard Shaw
- When you love something, you seek to learn its primitive form and also its concentrated form. – Unarine Ramaru
- First we form habits, then they form us. – Mark Matteson
- With every drop of my blood I hate and execrate every form of tyranny, every form of slavery. I hate dictation. I love liberty. – Robert G Ingersoll
- If you have to choose between something that has form and something that doesn’t, go for the one without form. That’s my rule. – Haruki Murakami
- Jealousy in any form will cloud thinking and form bad habits. Jealousy is an addiction. – Richie Norton